UK Keymap with German Umlauts

for virtual console and the X Keyboard Extension (XKB)

• Extends the gb (vconsole) and uk (xkb) keyboardmaps with German Umlauts
• Maps Escape to Caps (vim users)

Usage

• Press AltGr and a,o,u/A,O,U to get Umlauts
• Press AltGr and Caps to toggle Caps lock

Setup

Both maps depend on the default gb/uk map.

Virtual Console

Gzip and copy uk-umlaut.map to the keymaps location, activate it.

gzip uk-umlaut.map
cp uk-umlaut.map.gz /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/
localectl set-keymap uk-umlaut

(Example for ArchLinux)

X Keyboard Extension (XKB)

User / Testing

• Copy gb_uml to ~/.xkb/symbols/
• Get current configuration setxkbmap -print > ~/.xkb/gb_uml.xkb
• Edit gb_uml.xkb and add gb_uml to xkb_symbols

	xkb_keymap {
   	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"	};
   	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
	   xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
   	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+gb_uml+gb:2+at(nodeadkeys):3+us:4+inet(evdev)"	};
   	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
   };

• Load configuration xkbcomp -I$HOME/.xkb $HOME/.xkb/gb_uml.xkb $DISPLAY

System

• Copy gb_uml to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols
• Add layout to base.xml and evdev.xml (/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/)

    <layout>
      <configItem>
        <name>gb_uml</name>
        <shortDescription>en</shortDescription>
        <description>English (UK, Umlauts)</description>
        <languageList>
          <iso639Id>eng</iso639Id>
        </languageList>
     </configItem>
    </layout>

Packages

ArchLinux

There is a PKGBUILD at packages/arch/ to replace the xkeyboard-config package.

• Edit PKGBUILD and update pkgver (as tagged at the upstream git repository) if necessary
• Run makepkg
• Install

Copyright

See LICENSE.md.